There is too much light
too much spring and
the days getting longer
urging the sun to linger
melting the least last snow
too much spring and
green shoots in tall shadows
small boots and mittens
packed away for ever
too much spring and
there is too much light.
About the Poet
Julianna McCarthy is a Schieble Sonnet Prize winner, a Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a Los Angeles Emerging Poet. Her poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Tidal Basin Review, American Journal of Poetry,Nimrod and Rise Up Review. She holds an MFA from New England College. Her chapbook “Everything Hurts” was published by Latitude34 Press
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